Focus Cards

Preview

Rendered from the story the storybook (a11y) CI gate runs axe against — the preview can't show something that hasn't been verified.

Install

Two equivalent paths — the URL works in any shadcn-CLI setup; the alias works once you've registered @interlace in your components.json.

npx shadcn@latest add https://ds.interlace.tools/r/focus-cards.json

npx shadcn@latest add @interlace/focus-cards

Import

2 named exports — pull the parts you need.

import { FocusCard, FocusCards } from '@/components/ui/aceternity/focus-cards';

Anatomy

Extracted from the primitive's JSDoc header. The source is the only documentation that can't drift.

FocusCards                       (ul — data-slot="focus-cards")
    └─ li                          (data-slot="focus-cards-item",
                                    group/focus-item, data-active/data-dimmed,
                                    owns the pointer + focus handlers)
        └─ FocusCard               (article — data-slot="focus-card")
            ├─ div                 (data-slot="focus-card-media")
            └─ div                 (data-slot="focus-card-caption")
The active/dim state travels down as `group-data-[active]/focus-item` and
`group-data-[dimmed]/focus-item` CSS, so `renderItem` never forwards a prop
for it. `FocusCard`'s own `active` / `dimmed` props exist only for composing
a card outside the grid.

API reference

Parsed from the type declarations in the source — the same file the install writes into your tree, so this table can't drift from the component you get.

Accessibility

Every story for this component is rendered headlessly and checked with axe-core (wcag2aa, wcag22aa, best-practice, ACT) on every PR. That gate has no continue-on-error, so what ships has zero known violations.

What follows is what static analysis can see. Axe cannot press a key and never sees an overlay open, so the operable-without-a-mouse claim lives in Behavior instead, where the keyboard path is replayed step by step.

Focus + keyboard behaviour

Native element semantics — no interaction layer to get wrong.

Focus ring (WCAG 2.2 SC 2.4.13)

Not focusable — no focus indicator required.

Reduced motion

Animation is gated on prefers-reduced-motion.

ARIA in the source

None — semantics come from the element or the Base UI primitive rather than hand-written ARIA.

Examples

2 more states from the same story file.

Dependencies

Base UI primitive

Native / no Base UI dependency

Lucide icons

none

NPM dependencies

none

Registry dependencies

• @interlace/theme
• @interlace/cn
• @interlace/use-reduced-motion

Source

The full implementation — components/ui/aceternity/focus-cards.tsx once installed.

"use client";

import {
  type ComponentPropsWithoutRef,
  type ReactNode,
  useCallback,
  useState,
} from "react";

// @interlace/focus-cards v1.2.0 — Interlace design system.
// Docs, props and live preview: https://ds.interlace.tools/c/focus-cards
// What changed since: https://ds.interlace.tools/c/focus-cards#history
// Generated banner — keep it, the upgrade diff reads this version.

/**
 * @interlace/ui — FocusCards + FocusCard
 *
 * A grid that spotlights one card at a time: pointing at or keyboard-focusing
 * a card keeps it sharp while every sibling dims and blurs. Real list
 * semantics — `ul` › `li` › `article` — and a controlled or uncontrolled

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Registry JSON

The raw registry record — what the shadcn CLI fetches.